WST Minutes

Date: September 26, 2000

Location: Helm 05

Members Present: Byan Carson, Rose Davis, Deana Groves, Jonathan Jeffrey, Rosemary Meszaros, Sandy Staebell, Haiwang Yuan

1. Haiwang summarized the goals for TIP and who the primary target audience is. He also reviewed the guidelines for choosing sites for inclusion on it.
2. Team members discussed the guidelines for creating new categories on TIP and the possibility of coordinating with the newly set-up Task Force for Cataloging the Internet to work out a library wide policy guidelines on what Web sites to be included as our library collection.
3. Team members discussed adding new sites and categories to TIP and possibly deleting others. Recommendations included:

Modification of existing categories

• Link content-rich pages from the UL Web site to TIP's "More Library Resources"
• Change "Cooking & Food" to "Food & Nutrition"
• Change "Health & Medicine" to "Health & Fitness."
• Change "News & Media" to "News and Events"
• Change the URL for the "War of the Rebellion" site on the History category so it goes to index page for holdings. (We need to somehow modify the description because the user sees a screen of journals when he or she goes to the site and the user has to know enough to scroll down to reach the Civil War records.)
• Link "News & Periodicals" page on UL pages to "News & Events" category on TIP.
  
  

Addition of sites and categories

• "White/Yellow Pages" -- to list sites that provide phone numbers, phone directories, business listings, etc.
• "Freebies" -- for sites that give away samples, etc.
• Add computer virus sites to "Computing & the Web" category
• Add FirstGov.Com <http://www.llrx.com/guide/index.htm> to "Government & Law" category
• Add the "University Libraries & Museums Calendar & Events Page" to the "News and Events" category
• Add FindArticles.com<http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml> to "Books & Magazines"
• Add Barbley.com <http://www.bartleby.com> to "Books & Magazines" category.
4. The team discussed the definition of "portal" and the prospect of upgrading TIP so that users can "personalize" it.
5. The team discussed redesigning part of the TIP home page so users do not have to scroll for so long. A suggestion was made to revise the layout of the table that contains the Web-based databases into three or four columns.
6. Haiwang will also redesign the navigation system on TIP's templates so that there will be five yellow buttons instead of three. The two additional buttons will be converted from the current orange buttons on the far right of the screen, namely, "Research Guides" and "More Library Resources"
7. Create a new "Awards/Publications/Presentations" page for the UL web site. It will highlight the accomplishments of the UL and Museum as well as faculty and staff. While awards will be retrospective, publications of faculty and staff will be limited to the past year. Rose will work on this page.
8. The team will carry on the discussions online about the creation of a Web page for Library Exchange Between the Sister City of Bowling Green and Kawanish, Japan and finalize the plan at the next meeting
9. The next meeting is scheduled at 1:30 p.m in Helm 5 on September 31, 2000.

Sandy and Haiwang for the WST